Edgar Allan Poe
If I was as Mad as Poe,
could I summon the Raven?
If I was as radical as Blake,
could I build myself a tyger?
If I was as shut-in as Dickinson
could I be Nobody, too?
If I was as doomed as Radnóti,
could I pen my elegy on a death march?
William Blake
Emily Dickinson
Miklós Radnóti
By B Gourley in poem, Poetry on September 9, 2017.